THE PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1104152 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION, Pets Foundation, SUPPORT ADOPTION FOR PETS, THE PETS AT HOME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC052589 (OSCR)

The charity provides support for national animal welfare organisations and locally based re-homing centres through a combination of grants, joint fundraising activities and events. The charity also operates small animal adoption centres in a large number of Pets at Home stores.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,218,374 for the period, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds to £3,217,891. Despite this deficit and a cash outflow of £608,736, the charity held cash reserves of £3,344,814 at the year-end. The trustees confirmed the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• £240,000 funding awarded from Pets at Home Foundation scottishspca.org · 24/08/2023
• Pets at Home Foundation launches its biggest ever Christmas fundraiser to help rescue pets companionlife.co.uk · 25/11/2021

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• William Hewish — Chair (source)
• Scott White — Vice Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 27/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• William Hewishchair
• Alistair Leach
• Andrew Bickerton
• Callum Wells
• JILL SUZANNE Naylor
• Jack Miller
• Scott White

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BATTERSEA DOGS' AND CATS' HOME.

• BATTERSEA DOGS' AND CATS' HOME income £70.3m
• ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE income £172k
• ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £237k
• WOODGREEN PETS CHARITY income £21.1m
• PAWZ FOR THOUGHT income £276k
• SARA Ann Prosser Foundation income £209k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.